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Thanks for visiting my site. Hope you enjoyed your visit. I have been breeding and showing guppies for past 10 years now, I have won HB Purple class championship in 2014, 2015 and 2017, was runner up in 2016. I also finished as HB Blue class runner-up for 2017. I have won numerous awards and Best of the Shows(BOS) with my guppies. I am currently breeding HB Purples, HB Blues, Purples and Blues. All images and videos are under copyright protection and cannot be reproduced without permission

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Why you should do guppy crosses?

“Its better to try and fail than to never know and always wonder” remember that quote?

Have you gone to guppy shows and wondered how those beautiful guppies were produced and for a moment thought if only I could? That’s one of the one reasons why should try crosses and outcrosses in guppies

Few reasons why a cross would be the best bet

Your color strain has become weak and needs a compatible cross to improve

Your fish lacks color, size, lost vigor, then you need a cross

Crosses produce fish with hybrid vigor and some of the go on to win shows

Most importantly you will learn by doing crosses, otherwise you will never know your fish completely, but as with other things, before you start crossing you need to know few things about what colors are compatible and will produce the desired outcome.

I am going to limit from my experience here, some of the crosses I have carried out in my fish room are HB purples with purples, HB Blues with blues, HB purples with HB blues, Reds to HB reds, HB blues to Greens and vice versa in some cases. I would say, most of the crosses worked out good, some very good and some produced winning fish, overall I learnt a lot in the process like understanding where HB gene is present, is it in male or in female with my lines, which color is dominant and which is recessive and which crosses are to keep and which ones to dump. This helped me to get some recipes for success, fish always had great vigor.

Below is a cross which resulted from crossing a HB purple with purple, I had to do this cross because my line of HB purples were getting too dark and I need a line to lighten the purple on my HB purples

Below is sample example of purple line which was used

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I have been seriously breeding guppies for 10 years now, have had fish when I was young during school years. I am actively showing in IFGA and been HB Purple Class Champion in 2014,2015, 2017, 2018 and HB Blue Class runner up in 2017 and HB Blue Class Champion in 2018, I also finished second in IFGA Grand Overall Male in 2018, I am taking a break from showing in 2019 season. I have won number of accolades and Best of the Shows. I currently breed HB purples, HB Blues, HB Reds, Purples,Blues. (All images and videos are copyrighted and cannot be downloaded and used for anyone without permission)
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